Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Thomas Friedman

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Wendy Kopp

We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

Wendy Kopp

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Virginia Postrel

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.

Colin Morgan

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

Ben Carson

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

George Burley

The Polish guy was a lad I really wanted to bring to the club because he has smashing ability but unfortunately we've been unable to prise him away. He is a top-class player. One of the best in Poland.

Bruce Norris

The picture for California has been great, but I think it has started changing. There's certainly going to be upcoming weakness in California because we've just about gotten to the point where we've priced our typical buyer out of his ability to make the monthly payment.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Howard Dean

Use your network to send progressive delegates to the convention in Boston. ... We are not going away, we are staying together, unified, all of us.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Pat Walsh

I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.

Tom Ridge

to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.

Andy Long

I think it's a great move putting another person in there on the convention side.

Frank Fahrenkopf

He was somewhat surprised to learn that most of the convention space was also destroyed,

Kimberly Devlin

He will not be participating in the convention at all.

Walt Baker

I can't see a lot of development without that convention center.

John Aragon

That was a very good doubles team they just beat. They really move well together and make plays at the net.

Dave Howard

That was a tough way to give up that first run; it was a tough double play.

Rob Simmons

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

Greg Shivers

That was a great day for Nikki. She was just a double away from hitting for the cycle.

Richard Davies

That was a good little double move. You can tell he's been trained in our game. Looks like he has good hands and dimensions.

Tom Duffy

We need to improve our doubles game. They're all very young ? all but one of them is a freshman. But overall I was pleased with how we played. But Miller Place is a very solid team from top to bottom.

Victor Harris

We have two in the finals, which is pretty good. ... It would have been nice to get one of our doubles (teams) through, but I'm pleased in general.

R. Robinson

We'll probably do it as an appetizer. It will be about $8, I guess. For the hearty ones, we give them a double portion for dinner.

Ally McBeal

We're women; we have double standards to live up to

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Joe Wilcox

Microsoft had tremendous success with larger businesses, but that market has become very saturated.

Rease Watson

We have one of the larger parts to cover.

Rebecca Mangieri

You'll always want to find an actor in the larger role first.

Cassandra Dunn

The problem was much larger than we expected.

Richard Boucher

little pieces being picked out of a larger context.

Zoe Sugg

When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Chris Capuano

That was a sloppy inning. Take it away, and maybe we win.

Alex Rodriguez

That will never end. Maybe when I retire it will stop. I use it as a motivation.

Randy Moss

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

George Vecsey

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rahul Dravid

He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

Clark Kepler

I thought it would resonate, but I'm surprised at the size of it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

Henry Blodget

If any mega-merger of this size can work, this one can.

Tracy Adams

I could still use some more size on this team but we'll work with what we have.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Charles R. Swindoll

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Colleen Nave

That's the first triple play I've ever seen. It was very exciting.

Manal Fakhoury

See, we even got a triple A from the mayor.

Gary Fuller

To take that $187 million, more than triple our five-year average, is very significant,

Kate Walsh

I'm pregnant with triplets now and I feel really good.